The Crime of Truth and Common Sense.

Bush's big idea of a surge in Iraq has been condemned as a useless gesture by pretty much everybody outside of the White House and its blind loyalists in the GOP. Even generals think it is a waste of time. So why does the media continue to allow the GOP loyalists to characterize critics as "back-stabbers" against our soldiers?

Is no one allowed to say "that plan is bad"?

At what point did America become the Soviet Union...?

(If there was one problem with Soviet politics, it was the inability of officials to speak freely. The country ran on bad information for decades because nobody could say any policy was flawed. Sound familiar?)